The Community Assets Programme

Through this programme the DTA will provide support to third sector organisations and local authorities involved in the transfer of assets into community ownership

Community Assets is funded by the Office of the Third Sector and managed by the Big Lottery Fund. The aim of the £30m programme is community empowerment facilitated by the transfer of genuine assets from local authorities to the third sector for community benefit. The Development Trusts Association is working with Coin Street Community Builders, Community Matters and the Environment Trust to deliver comprehensive support to 38 in-principle award winners.

Community Assets is intended to deliver the following outcomes:-

1. Local third sector organisations have greater security and independence, and are better able to meet the needs of the communities they serve

2. Communities have greater access to better facilities that respond to their needs

3. There is more effective partnership working between local authorities and the third sector

The partnerships involved in the programme cover a good geographic spread and are from a mix of urban, rural and coastal environments:

Name of Lead Organisation	Name of Partner Organisation	Project name
Allerdale Borough Council	North Allerdale Partnership Limited	Wigton Market Hall
Ashfield District Council	Ashfield Community Radio and Media Training	The Studio - Acacia Avenue Community Training and Activity Centre
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council	Forge Community Partnership	Rockingham Complex - Rockingham Community Hall
Battersea Arts Centre	Wandsworth Borough Council	Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) - Securing the Future
Bermondsey Artists' Group	London Borough of Southwark	Dilston Grove - Art and Education centred in the community
Birtley Community Partnership	Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council	Birtley Community Hub
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council	Community & Business Partners Limited	Green Business Enterprise And Social Organisation (Green BEANS)
Bradford Metropolitan District Council	Keighley Voluntary Services Limited	Central Hall, Keighley
Charnwood Borough Council	Gorse Covert Community Association	Gorse Covert Community Association
Chester-Le Street District Council	Pelton Fell Community Group	Pelton Fell Community Resource Centre
City of York Council	St Clement's Hall Preservation Trust (SCHPT)	St Clement's Hall Community Asset Transfer
Creative Studios Cumbria Limited	Barrow in Furness Borough Council	Creative Studios Cumbria
Derbyshire County Council	Chesterfield Canal Trust Ltd	Hollingwood Lock House - A Waterway Hub
Hartlepool People Limited	Hartlepool Borough Council	New Life for Hartlepool People
Hastings Borough Council	Hastings Voluntary Action	Jackson Hall: Third Sector Incubator and Community Anchor
Herefordshire Council	Leominster Area Regeneration Company Limited	Grange Court: building in the past for the future
Hope House Projects	West Lancashire District Council	Hope House Project
Learning Links (Southern) Limited	Hampshire County Council	Treadgolds Centre
London Borough of Barking & Dagenham	Barking and Dagenham Council for Voluntary Service	The Third Sector Hub (3SH)
London Borough of Havering	Briar Community Association	Briar Community & Youth Project (BCYP)
London Borough of Hillingdon	Age Concern Hillingdon	Townfield Community Centre - at the Heart of the Community
London Borough of Lewisham	Pepys Community Forum	Asset Transfer of Parker House to the Pepys Community Forum
London Borough of Tower Hamlets	The Whitechapel Community Trust Ltd	Whitechapel Centre
LOOSE	Halton Borough Council	Queen's Hall Studio
Newcastle Upon Tyne City Council	West End Women and Girls Centre	The Community's Heart Project (Development of Stephenson Building)
North Lincolnshire Council	Community, Heritage, Arts and Media Project Limited	Barton-upon-Humber Community Development Trust
Penny Lane Development Trust	Liverpool City Council	Grove Mount Community Centre Phase 1
Plymouth City Council	Real Ideas Organisation Community Interest Company	Devonport Guildhall
Sedgefield Borough Council	Pioneering Care Partnership	Pioneering Care Centre
St Werburghs Community Association	Bristol City Council	Sustainable East Bristol 2010
Stockton Borough Council	The Five Lamps Organisation	Community Economic Inclusion Centre
Stoke-on-Trent City Council	Mitchell Memorial Youth Arts Centre Limited	Mitchell Memorial Youth Arts Centre (MMYAC)
Streatham Darby and Joan Club	London Borough of Lambeth	Streatham Communities Hub
Tring Youth Project	Hertfordshire County Council	A New temperance Hall, a new opportunity for young people
The Bromham Millers CIC	Bedfordshire CC	Regeneration and renaissance of Bromham Mill
Warrington Borough Council	Warrington Disability Partnership	Warrington Centre for Independent Living - Opening Doors to the Community
West Lindsey District Council	Young and Safe in Gainsborough	Young and Safe in Gainsborough (YASIG)
Worthing Borough Council	Sussex Clubs for Young People	Maybridge Future-Proof

Each area is benefiting from tailored packages of support from the DTA and partners to progress transfer of a local authority asset to a third sector organisation. The support is intended to facilitate the development of high quality capital delivery plans to underpin proposed refurbishment work by each partnership and includes design input; assistance with legal and governance issues; VAT advice; business planning; fundraising and marketing advice; community consultation support; as well as more generic capacity building activities.

In-principle award winners are expected to submit their completed capital delivery plans in September 2008, and successful partnerships will commence related asset refurbishment work during spring/summer 2009.

For further information about Community Assets please contact:

Annemarie Naylor
Assets Programmes Manager

Development Trusts Association
National office: 33 Corsham StreetLondon N1 6DR

t: 0845 458 8336
e: a.naylor@dta.org.uk

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